Strongly reducing NaHS regenerates Fe(II)EDTA for efficient NO removal with high cycling performance under high oxygen conditions

Fe(II)EDTA can remove NO efficiently, but it has not been industrially applied. This is because the oxygen present in the flue gas will oxidize Fe(II)EDTA and Fe(II)EDTA-NO to Fe(III)EDTA and deactivate them. In order to solve this problem, this paper innovatively proposes to use NaHS to reduce Fe(III) EDTA, because NaHS has high reducing ability and low price. Therefore, a series of experimental conditions were explored in order to obtain the best reaction setup. The results indicate that increasing the concentrations of NaHS, temperature, and pH enhances the rate of NaHS reduction. The mechanism of the increase in reduction rate was studied in depth using potentiometric titration. It was found that an increase in OH- concentration will generate S8 precipitate, which is beneficial to the forward progress of the reaction and promotes the large-scale production of the active component Fe2+. Oxygen is an inevitable factor in actual flue gas, so this study innovatively proposed a kinetic model under aerobic conditions and used this model to predict the trend of Fe(III)EDTA reduction by NaHS. On this basis, NO removal experiments were conducted under high oxygen conditions. After 15 cycles, the reduction performance of NaHS was still very high, and the NO removal rate was higher than 70%. The reason for this phenomenon is that the stabilizer exists in a form that is conducive to the removal of NO by the active component Fe2+. Therefore, this study provides theoretical guidance for promoting the industrial application of Fe(II) EDTA technology for NO removal. [Display omitted] •The mechanism of reduction of Fe (III)EDTA by NaHS was determined.•The reaction order of NaHS reduction reaction for Fe(III)EDTA is 2.•The derived kinetic model in an aerobic environment was utilized to predict the trend of Fe(III)EDTA reduction by NaHS and validated experimentally.•NaHS has excellent cycling performance in high oxygen cycling NO removal experiments.